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John Dear's Weekly Columns for the National Catholic Reporter

Denise Levertov’s Peacemaking Poetry

In 1991, as the U.S. bombed Baghdad, the phone rang at the Jesuit community house in Oakland where I was living. It was an English professor at Stanford. Would I…

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January 30, 2007
John Dear's Weekly Columns for the National Catholic Reporter

The Trials, and Blessings, of Peacework

I think we’ve well entered into Orwell’s nightmare of a post-modern, post-Christian era of permanent war. We have a war president, a Congress that writes blank checks for war, an…

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January 23, 2007
John Dear's Weekly Columns for the National Catholic Reporter

The God at Dr. King’s Kitchen Table

Over the years, in my search for clues as to the ways of the God of peace, I've inquired of a great many people about their experience of God. Jesuits,…

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January 16, 2007
John Dear's Weekly Columns for the National Catholic Reporter

Dr. King’s Final Refusal to Give Up

In the months before Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, as he planned the “Poor People’s Campaign” and spoke out against the U.S. war in Vietnam, he plunged into despair.…

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January 15, 2007
John Dear's Weekly Columns for the National Catholic Reporter

Our Image of God

Just before Christmas, Daniel Berrigan and I spent an evening with Franciscan priest and teacher Richard Rohr at the new Catholic Worker house in Albuquerque. A blizzard swirled outside, and…

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January 9, 2007
John Dear's Weekly Columns for the National Catholic Reporter

Nonviolence, More than Just a New Year’s Resolution

New Year's weekend brought three and a half feet of snow to the mesa high in the New Mexico desert where I live. So I've been sitting by a fire,…

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January 2, 2007
John Dear's Weekly Columns for the National Catholic Reporter

“Peace on Earth” Means “No More War”

Jesus came into the world to homeless refugees, into abject poverty, on the outskirts of a brutal empire, and the story goes that on that night, a chorus of angels…

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December 25, 2006
John Dear's Weekly Columns for the National Catholic Reporter

Iraq and Peace on Earth

The news out of Iraq is grim, and I believe it will get grimmer, despite what the Bush Administration says, as long as our troops are there. I want the…

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December 12, 2006
John Dear's Weekly Columns for the National Catholic Reporter

Ita, Maura, Dorothy and Jean

December 2nd marks the 26th anniversary of the death of four North American churchwomen, killed in El Salvador in 1980 by U.S.-trained death squads. I remember exactly where I was…

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December 6, 2006
John Dear's Weekly Columns for the National Catholic Reporter

The Beatitudes of Peace

Open your Bible to Matthew 5 and you will never be the same. Gandhi and King called those passages the grandest manifesto of nonviolence ever written—beginning with the storied Beatitudes.…

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November 26, 2006
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